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LinkbeltOE · 04-08-2009, 07:04 PM

Hey guys,
I am in the middle of restoring my long bed stepside wood and noticed the width of my bed wood is not the same, I want to make all the boards the same width and add another strip so all boards are about 5" wide. What I was wondering is has anyone done this and if so how does it look? Any help would be appreciated. The 2 end boards are about 2" wide then 4 boards are just under 8" and 2 boards are about 6". I have some really really nice Brazillian Walnut 1" X 6" and want to use it, what do ya think?

TheDark1 · 04-08-2009, 08:42 PM

I haven't ever done it, but I don't see why it can't be done. You'll have to redrill all the holes I'm sure. You might want to use some pine or plywood as a template. It's relatively cheap and you'd get an idea of how the pieces would fit. Sounds like a nice project, though.

jason65 · 04-08-2009, 09:21 PM

www.Mar-k.com has some good instructions on it.

doubledog · 04-09-2009, 06:58 AM

i just finished mine a couple of days ago,but i went with the kit from classic parts,for the money around 500$ and all the stainless you cant beat it i dont think,just my two cents.here is a couple of pics,i just posted in another thread.

this is yellow pine it runs a little cheaper than the oak does .

jason65 · 04-09-2009, 07:23 AM

Doubledog, did you have to drill the outside edges where the wood meets the edges of the bed or did it come all predrilled?

doubledog · 04-10-2009, 10:05 AM

the holes on the out side edge have to be drilled by yourself but the rest were predrilled but they charge you a extra 30$ for drilling but it is worth the money as you can see every thing fits real nice.i put some stainless strips over the top of the existing rails attached to the bedsides a few of the holes were rusted a little bit.

502tripower · 04-10-2009, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LinkbeltOE

Hey guys,
I am in the middle of restoring my long bed stepside wood and noticed the width of my bed wood is not the same, I want to make all the boards the same width and add another strip so all boards are about 5" wide. What I was wondering is has anyone done this and if so how does it look? Any help would be appreciated. The 2 end boards are about 2" wide then 4 boards are just under 8" and 2 boards are about 6". I have some really really nice Brazillian Walnut 1" X 6" and want to use it, what do ya think?

I have made several bed wood kits both stock and custom. If your material is not wide enough you can do a tung and grove joint and glue two pices together to get the desired dimension or do a bisquet joint. I prefer the tung and grove. Once the glue is set then resurface your material to 3/4". Here is a link to the dimentions you need. Good Luck
http://www.gmcpauls.com/47-72_BedWood_Info.htm

LinkbeltOE · 04-12-2009, 03:30 PM

Anyone else?

LinkbeltOE · 04-16-2009, 01:25 PM

Well I got the wood milled down to ORIGINAL spec,I didn't go with all the boards being uniform due to just didn't want to drill all those holes. If I knew how to put pics up here I would and if anyone could help me out that would be great.

joe231 · 04-16-2009, 01:35 PM

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=295313

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=209103

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=201224

LinkbeltOE · 04-19-2009, 08:07 AM

How do I resize them?

*LILRED66* · 04-19-2009, 08:20 AM

On your computer, go to Windows Explorer and find where you keep your pictures stored on your computer. Double click on the photo you want to post. On the bottom right side of the screen showing the photo, there is an icon for resizing a photo and the prompt will ask if you want to close this application and open the photo for resizing. It will then pull up the photo and you can drag the borders in a bit to decrease the width or height. After doing so, you can save the photo under "save as" and name it whatever you want so you can find it later. After you have done this you go to the forums and hit the Go Advanced icon. The screen will refresh and there will be a paperclip in the icon choices. Click on the paper clip icon and a browse window will appear. Click the top browse icon and it will direct you to the various locations of your photo locations. Find the photo you resized and double-click on it and the file name of the photo will appear on the title line next to the browse icon. Click on upload photo and if all was done properly, the photo will now be on the thread you are creating. If it doesn't work, call me and I will talk you through the process. Once you do it, you will get the hang of it and have a lot more enjoyment with the site. Good luck and let me know if I can help.

LinkbeltOE · 04-19-2009, 08:22 AM

http://yfrog.com/b7p1040061j I went with stock.

*LILRED66* · 04-19-2009, 08:33 AM

The width of the boards in the bed, stepside or fleetside, is only limited by your imagination. Make sure when laying out the widths, the wear strips do not land on the locations of the bed-to-frame bolt locations. These locations correspond with the factory landing locations of the cross sills and the factory stand-offs on the frame to accept the cross sills. The reason the boards are various widths is to avoid this problem.

The overall integrity of the bed/wood/cross sill/wear strip assembly is maximized by the number of fasteners through the wear strips and the perimeter flange at the bed sides & wheel tubs, plus the fact that they are backed-up underneath with the perpendicular cross sills and this sub-assembly securely attaches in serveral locations to the stand-ups on the frame. Eliminating the wear strips reduces the number of fasteners holding the entire assembly together, but I don't think it would compromise the assembly structurally.

I know you decided to move forward with the factory assembly method, so this information may not be much help, but I wanted to share anyway. Good luck and hopefully you can post some pictures of the process.

LinkbeltOE · 04-19-2009, 08:45 AM

Did my link to a pic work?

msgross · 04-19-2009, 09:56 AM

I've got NOS bed wood for sale in the 67-72 parts board..

I might go with walnut..

joe231 · 04-19-2009, 02:47 PM

this one?

yeah it worked

LinkbeltOE · 04-19-2009, 03:13 PM

OH geez thats huge.........yeah you need to resize that.

joe231 · 04-19-2009, 03:14 PM

yeah sorry....I just linked it to your pic...didn't realize it was so big

Mad Max · 04-19-2009, 04:28 PM

I think you should just sell the box to me and go with a fleetside instead !
(yeah I know....fat chance)

Tomb23 · 05-06-2009, 10:35 AM

Has anyone installed Bedwood With out drilling though the 2 boards with the offset washers? Is there an alternate way ?

dallas71 · 05-06-2009, 12:59 PM

those holes are usually there to mount the bed to the frame....the other holes just mount the wood to the bed....probably not a good idea to remove unless you are mounting the bed to the frame a different way...

502tripower · 05-06-2009, 02:26 PM

I have made several beds and always counter bore the bottom of the boards and use a careage bolt under the bed wood.

04-08-2009, 07:04 PM	#1
LinkbeltOE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Posts: 125	Bed Wood Hey guys, I am in the middle of restoring my long bed stepside wood and noticed the width of my bed wood is not the same, I want to make all the boards the same width and add another strip so all boards are about 5" wide. What I was wondering is has anyone done this and if so how does it look? Any help would be appreciated. The 2 end boards are about 2" wide then 4 boards are just under 8" and 2 boards are about 6". I have some really really nice Brazillian Walnut 1" X 6" and want to use it, what do ya think?

04-08-2009, 08:42 PM	#2
TheDark1 Intentionally Left Blank Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Broussard, LA Posts: 355	Re: Bed Wood I haven't ever done it, but I don't see why it can't be done. You'll have to redrill all the holes I'm sure. You might want to use some pine or plywood as a template. It's relatively cheap and you'd get an idea of how the pieces would fit. Sounds like a nice project, though. __________________ 1965 C-10 Short Fleet 468/TKO 5-Speed 2004 2500HD Crew 496/Ally Blacked Out (SOLD!!) 1997 Formula WS6 2004 Jeep Wrangler (Sold) 2013 Jeep Wrangler (Sold) 2017 Jeep Wrangler (Blacked Out on 35's) 2011 GMC D-Max Dually Denali 3500HD (Sold) 2015 GMC D-Max Dually Denali 3500HD (Sold) 2018 GMC D-Max Dually Denali 3500HD (Sold) 2020 D-Max Dually Denali on 33x12.50's 1979 GMC Short Bed Step-Side 4x4 350/350 Low Miles

04-08-2009, 09:21 PM	#3
jason65 Registerd User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 2,118	Re: Bed Wood www.Mar-k.com has some good instructions on it.

04-09-2009, 06:58 AM	#4
doubledog Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: muncie indiana Posts: 24	Re: Bed Wood i just finished mine a couple of days ago,but i went with the kit from classic parts,for the money around 500$ and all the stainless you cant beat it i dont think,just my two cents.here is a couple of pics,i just posted in another thread. this is yellow pine it runs a little cheaper than the oak does .

04-09-2009, 07:23 AM	#5
jason65 Registerd User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 2,118	Re: Bed Wood Doubledog, did you have to drill the outside edges where the wood meets the edges of the bed or did it come all predrilled?

04-10-2009, 10:05 AM	#6
doubledog Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: muncie indiana Posts: 24	Re: Bed Wood the holes on the out side edge have to be drilled by yourself but the rest were predrilled but they charge you a extra 30$ for drilling but it is worth the money as you can see every thing fits real nice.i put some stainless strips over the top of the existing rails attached to the bedsides a few of the holes were rusted a little bit.

04-12-2009, 03:30 PM	#8
LinkbeltOE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Posts: 125	Re: Bed Wood Anyone else?

04-16-2009, 01:25 PM	#9
LinkbeltOE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Posts: 125	Re: Bed Wood Well I got the wood milled down to ORIGINAL spec,I didn't go with all the boards being uniform due to just didn't want to drill all those holes. If I knew how to put pics up here I would and if anyone could help me out that would be great.

04-16-2009, 01:35 PM	#10
joe231 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Palmer, Alaska Posts: 13,821	Re: Bed Wood http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=295313 http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=209103 http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=201224 __________________ *CHEVY ONLY*

04-19-2009, 08:07 AM	#11
LinkbeltOE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Posts: 125	Re: Bed Wood How do I resize them?

04-19-2009, 08:20 AM	#12
LILRED66 Account Suspended Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas City, KS Posts: 3,906	Re: Bed Wood On your computer, go to Windows Explorer and find where you keep your pictures stored on your computer. Double click on the photo you want to post. On the bottom right side of the screen showing the photo, there is an icon for resizing a photo and the prompt will ask if you want to close this application and open the photo for resizing. It will then pull up the photo and you can drag the borders in a bit to decrease the width or height. After doing so, you can save the photo under "save as" and name it whatever you want so you can find it later. After you have done this you go to the forums and hit the Go Advanced icon. The screen will refresh and there will be a paperclip in the icon choices. Click on the paper clip icon and a browse window will appear. Click the top browse icon and it will direct you to the various locations of your photo locations. Find the photo you resized and double-click on it and the file name of the photo will appear on the title line next to the browse icon. Click on upload photo and if all was done properly, the photo will now be on the thread you are creating. If it doesn't work, call me and I will talk you through the process. Once you do it, you will get the hang of it and have a lot more enjoyment with the site. Good luck and let me know if I can help.

04-19-2009, 08:22 AM	#13
LinkbeltOE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Posts: 125	Re: Bed Wood http://yfrog.com/b7p1040061j I went with stock.

04-19-2009, 08:33 AM	#14
LILRED66 Account Suspended Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas City, KS Posts: 3,906	Re: Bed Wood The width of the boards in the bed, stepside or fleetside, is only limited by your imagination. Make sure when laying out the widths, the wear strips do not land on the locations of the bed-to-frame bolt locations. These locations correspond with the factory landing locations of the cross sills and the factory stand-offs on the frame to accept the cross sills. The reason the boards are various widths is to avoid this problem. The overall integrity of the bed/wood/cross sill/wear strip assembly is maximized by the number of fasteners through the wear strips and the perimeter flange at the bed sides & wheel tubs, plus the fact that they are backed-up underneath with the perpendicular cross sills and this sub-assembly securely attaches in serveral locations to the stand-ups on the frame. Eliminating the wear strips reduces the number of fasteners holding the entire assembly together, but I don't think it would compromise the assembly structurally. I know you decided to move forward with the factory assembly method, so this information may not be much help, but I wanted to share anyway. Good luck and hopefully you can post some pictures of the process. Last edited by LILRED66; 04-19-2009 at 08:34 AM.

04-19-2009, 08:45 AM	#15
LinkbeltOE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Posts: 125	Re: Bed Wood Did my link to a pic work?

04-19-2009, 09:56 AM	#16
msgross Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Central PA Posts: 12,201	Re: Bed Wood I've got NOS bed wood for sale in the 67-72 parts board.. I might go with walnut.. __________________ The Garage: 1968 K-10 SWB - "Project Money Pit" 1996 Z-71 - "huntin rig" 1969 C-10 LWB (SOLD) "Project flip that truck or else" 1993 Passport, F@rd 1-ton (SOLD)"Project Cousin Eddie" My Garage Build "The 1,000 footer"



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04-19-2009, 02:47 PM	#17
joe231 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Palmer, Alaska Posts: 13,821	Re: Bed Wood this one? yeah it worked __________________ *CHEVY ONLY*

04-19-2009, 03:13 PM	#18
LinkbeltOE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Posts: 125	Re: Bed Wood OH geez thats huge.........yeah you need to resize that.

04-19-2009, 03:14 PM	#19
joe231 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Palmer, Alaska Posts: 13,821	Re: Bed Wood yeah sorry....I just linked it to your pic...didn't realize it was so big __________________ *CHEVY ONLY*

04-19-2009, 04:28 PM	#20
Mad Max Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 45	Re: Bed Wood I think you should just sell the box to me and go with a fleetside instead ! (yeah I know....fat chance)

05-06-2009, 10:35 AM	#21
Tomb23 Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Eastern Oregon Posts: 201	Re: Bed Wood Has anyone installed Bedwood With out drilling though the 2 boards with the offset washers? Is there an alternate way ? Attached Images

05-06-2009, 12:59 PM	#22
dallas71 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Corinth,TX Posts: 444	Re: Bed Wood those holes are usually there to mount the bed to the frame....the other holes just mount the wood to the bed....probably not a good idea to remove unless you are mounting the bed to the frame a different way... __________________ My 1966 LWB Truck My 1966 SWB Truck

05-06-2009, 02:26 PM	#23
502tripower Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Satsop, WA Posts: 606	Re: Bed Wood I have made several beds and always counter bore the bottom of the boards and use a careage bolt under the bed wood. Attached Images __________________ 1963' Chev Custom Cab 502, 67' 435hp 3X2 intake, 9" 4:30 Posi 1961 Impala SS 348/350 4-speed 3:70 Posi 1961 Bel-Air Bubble Top 283 Turboglide soon to have a 348 3X2 4-speed 1950 17' Fairliner twin cockpit barrel stern 312 Y block 1X1 intake Borg Warner 1:1 gear 1957 Fleetform 14' twin cockpit barrel stern 1969 BP-125 Merc 1949 Transitier 3-wheel forklift Crosley 4-Banger 98' FXD 2002 2500HD Last edited by 502tripower; 05-06-2009 at 02:29 PM.

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